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Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952
Adam R. Seipp
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Description for Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952
Hardback. The story of Wildflecken through the eyes of very different groups Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 564.
In 1936, the Nazi state created a massive military training site near Wildflecken, a tiny community in rural Bavaria. During the war, this base housed an industrial facility that drew forced laborers from all over conquered Europe. At war's end, the base became Europe's largest Displaced Persons camp, housing thousands of Polish refugees and German civilians fleeing Eastern Europe. As the Cold War intensified, the US Army occupied the base, removed the remaining refugees, and stayed until 1994. Strangers in the Wild Place tells the story of these tumultuous years through the eyes of these very different groups, who were forced to find ways to live together and form a functional society out of the ruins of Hitler's Reich.
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
563g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253006776
SKU
V9780253006776
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-1
About Adam R. Seipp
Adam R. Seipp is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University and author of The Ordeal of Peace: Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany, 1917-1921.
Reviews for Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952
Seipp has written a meticulously researched, enlightening study.
Journal of Modern History
Well written and based on an abundance of local, national, and international sources, Strangers in theWild Place reveals the inner 'workings of rural society in occupied and semi-sovereign West Germany'. . . . [T]his book makes an important contribution to a more nuanced understanding of how (West) Germans negotiated the transition from Nazism to democracy, from war to postwar.
Central European History
Strangers in the Wild Place is well written, and the history it provides would be a valuable supplementary text for a graduate course. Seipp's extensive use of previously untapped sources is impressive.
Oral History
This book is a carefully crafted treatment of how one community, Wildflecken, in rural eastern West Germany fared with its various refugees and US occupation troops while the world transitioned from the horrors of WWII to the tensions of the Cold War. . . . Highly recommended.
Choice
Strangers in the Wild Place is a mix of social, government, and military history.The book capably captures individual plight, describes group interactions, and setsall these relationships in an understandable historical context of the place of Wildflecken.It is definitely a work of imaginative and sound scholarship. . . . Strangers in the Wild Place is worth exploring for the complex human tale that it so imaginatively reveals.
Journal of Military History
Seipp has written a meticulously researched, enlightening study.
Oral History Review
[T]his book makes an important contribution to a more nuanced understanding of how (West) Germans negotiated the transition from Nazism to democracy, from war to postwar.47.4 Dec. 2014
CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY
In clear, straightforward prose, Seipp does yeoman's work with his extensive use of both primary and secondary sources. . . . His treatment of the pentagonal interaction of the camp's residents, the town of Wildflecken, the US Army, the UNRRA and the Land of Bavaria contributes to a greater understanding of just how complex the reconstruction of a country's socio-political infrastructure must necessarily be in the aftermath of a major conflict.
German History
Journal of Modern History
Well written and based on an abundance of local, national, and international sources, Strangers in theWild Place reveals the inner 'workings of rural society in occupied and semi-sovereign West Germany'. . . . [T]his book makes an important contribution to a more nuanced understanding of how (West) Germans negotiated the transition from Nazism to democracy, from war to postwar.
Central European History
Strangers in the Wild Place is well written, and the history it provides would be a valuable supplementary text for a graduate course. Seipp's extensive use of previously untapped sources is impressive.
Oral History
This book is a carefully crafted treatment of how one community, Wildflecken, in rural eastern West Germany fared with its various refugees and US occupation troops while the world transitioned from the horrors of WWII to the tensions of the Cold War. . . . Highly recommended.
Choice
Strangers in the Wild Place is a mix of social, government, and military history.The book capably captures individual plight, describes group interactions, and setsall these relationships in an understandable historical context of the place of Wildflecken.It is definitely a work of imaginative and sound scholarship. . . . Strangers in the Wild Place is worth exploring for the complex human tale that it so imaginatively reveals.
Journal of Military History
Seipp has written a meticulously researched, enlightening study.
Oral History Review
[T]his book makes an important contribution to a more nuanced understanding of how (West) Germans negotiated the transition from Nazism to democracy, from war to postwar.47.4 Dec. 2014
CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY
In clear, straightforward prose, Seipp does yeoman's work with his extensive use of both primary and secondary sources. . . . His treatment of the pentagonal interaction of the camp's residents, the town of Wildflecken, the US Army, the UNRRA and the Land of Bavaria contributes to a greater understanding of just how complex the reconstruction of a country's socio-political infrastructure must necessarily be in the aftermath of a major conflict.
German History